CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

We used the CB Insights platform to surface 10 notable, early-stage eSports startups developing technologies related to competitive gaming facilitated by electronic systems, particularly video games played on computers or consoles by professional gamers (though many do it as a hobby or pastime). Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts.

California 49

California San Francisco Video Oakland 49

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the US, legislation emerged to forbid investment banks from prop trading, or trading with their own capital, and forcing them to keep more capital on hand. At the same time, financial upstarts have built technologies that could eventually cut into the relationship-driven work that investment banks are used to doing.

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Management Capital Company Marketing 78

CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Select Investors: Tencent Holdings, Disney Accelerator, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Vulcan Capital, ICONIQ Capital. It is also known for developing Unreal Engine.

San Francisco 77

San Francisco Company US California 77

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. This list is not intended to be exhaustive of corporations working on autonomous vehicle technology. Top initiatives: Filed patent in 2016 for autonomous lane-switching technology.

System 78

System Technology Michigan California 78

CB Insights

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Boston-based Cybereason is close to reaching Unicorn status. The company raised $102M in Q2’17 from the likes Data Collective, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, NVIDIA GPU Ventures, Real Ventures, and Tencent Holdings. Felicis Ventures, Signatures Capital, Walden Venture Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Industry 78

Industry Capital Compliance Analytics 78

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In this review of failure, we’ve looked in our venture capital database to find the most well-funded startup companies that ultimately failed or had an undesirable exit, such as an asset sale or an acquisition for less than the total funding raised by the company. Company: AOptix Technologies. Total Funding: Over $100M.

Capital 78

Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Technology — not traditional payments companies — will be who leads the way. Looking at the data, how players in payments and commerce more broadly are using technology and the shopping habits of consumers all make that fact indisputable. For most of the last decade, we’ve been talking about the same old, same old.

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Payments Online Mobile Retail 100